Please see this wonderful video below if you have not already, about how music can aid those with Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease
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"It’s hard to believe it’s been over ten years since the Henry video went viral, capturing the attention of news outlets worldwide and culminating in a Sundance Award-winning documentary, Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory.
Henry Dryer, who loved jazz and Cab Calloway, and who’s favorite song was Nat King Cole’s Unforgettable, transforms in the video while listening to his favorite music, revealing himself as a passionate believer in the power of music, even as he is brought back by the very same songs he loves so much.
In the film, Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory, which featured Henry’s story, audiences first encounter Henry hunched over in his wheelchair, head down, hands clasped firmly together, unresponsive to the world around him.
As soon as a pair of headphones are placed on his head the 94-year-old dementia patient opens his eyes, sits up straight and begins swaying and humming along with the music. Henry speaks animatedly about his favorite band leader, Cab Calloway, and even begins to emulate the jazz artist’s style of scat singing — at one point launching into a moving rendition of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”
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